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In a decade of scammers, Malachi Love-Robinson (or “Dr. Love”) was particularly iconic. In 2018, the 18-year-old was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for pretending to be a doctor. For the record, though he didn’t have any medical training, he did have a doctorate from an online seminary school. It reportedly cost…

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RSL’s DP striker made good use of the few minutes he saw

CHRISTINE KEELER was at the heart of British political scandal in the 1960s. So how did her affair with John Profumo rock Harold Macmillan’s Conservative Government?

The title of a new Thai film is a bilingual wordplay: How To Ting is literally translated as "how to dump". That, I think, is sharper than its tired official English title, Happy Old Year. To dump or not to dump -- things and people, mementos and memories -- that is the question. In the film, a young designer who's dressed like a Muji model, and who has just returned from studying in the...

Always looking forward to the next year? Award-winning and well-regarded filmmaker Nawapol "Ter" Thamrongrattanarit is back, with How To Ting (Happy Old Year), his seventh directorial feature film, and a unique love drama about people who get stuck at times on moving on and letting go. And just like any of Nawapol's other movies, Happy Old Year opened last week to very good notices and a string of...

After some hesitation, the Prayut Chan-o-cha government has finally decided to kick off a campaign to cut back on the use of plastic bags starting tomorrow thanks to cooperation from shopping malls and major convenience stores. Though the campaign has good intentions, it is short of being a praiseworthy effort.

After a lukewarm first half, Thailand's IPO scene is bustling again from listings by four large corporations during the last six months, cementing the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in the top spot for IPO value among Asean bourses.

Thailand's economic growth is expected to close at 2.5% in the October-to-December quarter, leading the full-year figure to achieve the central bank's forecast of 2.5%, though risk remains to the downside, says a senior official.

Thai shares edged up 0.1% on the last trading day of 2019, the benchmark index posting a 1% yearly rise as confidence was muted by the prolonged US-China trade dispute and sluggish economic growth at home and abroad.

On the eve of the roaring twenties, $1 hails the doyens of the last decade in hurling

On the eve of the roaring twenties, $1 hails the doyens of the last decade in football

1. Facebook Is Finally Removing Some—But Not All—Misleading Preventive HIV Drug Ads  Gizmodo
2. Facebook disables some misleading ads on HIV prevention drugs, responding to growing outcry  The Washington Post
3. It Took Facebook More Than 3 Months To Remove Harmful Ads About HIV Drugs  HuffPost
4. Facebook Begins Quietly Pulling Harmful False Ads About Truvada and PrEP After Outcry from LGBTQ Groups  Towleroad
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